[cvsnt] Re: CVS thinking CVS hidden directories are new

[Christian Hack]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org 
> [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Tony Hoyle
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 March 2004 10:29 AM
> To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: [cvsnt] Re: CVS thinking CVS hidden directories are new
> 
> 
> Christian Hack wrote:
> 
> > Apparently this is a CVSNT bug according to Torsten of 
> TortoiseCVS. I
> > have attached Torsten's final reply declaring it's a CVSNT bug.
> 
> It's not a bug, in fact.  All versions of CVS behave 
> identically in this
> respect.
> 
> You've told it not to ignore anything, so it doesn't.  CVS 
> has a default list of files that
> it'll ignore, and the CVS directory is one of those.  
> Normally you wouldn't use
> ! to reset all the ignore files unless you were going to add 
> some or all of these to
> the list.  ! on its own is pretty drastic and has the effect 
> you noticed.
> 
> It's just saying "this directory exists and you've told me 
> not to ignore it" - it's nothing to
> do with added directories or anything.
> 

OK Thanks for the clarification Tony - makes sense. It would seem
Torsten is mistaken then.

CH